It’s a fresh clean slate for Aion as it launched its new V-Bulletin-powered forums, which underwent a massive overhaul in the past few weeks. NCSoft announced the upgrade earlier in response to suggestions that the old model lacked even simple features such as creating post signatures.

The Aion developer said the change will give a “much wider array of functionality” to the official forums, citing better highlighted posts from the Community Team (for quick browsing of major announcements) and user features such as thread subscriptions and a private message system.

A quick look at the V-Bulletin website shows the features available to the Aion forums, but the list could be limited depending on the level of manpower NCSoft assigns to regular updates.

Feedback has been mostly positive due to the inclusion of basic customization features long requested since the MMO launched last year. We think enough promotion and a smooth roll out in the coming weeks should be enough to convince a portion of the fan base now holed up in posting haven Aionsource.com to relocate to the official forums.

NCSoft announced the old forum content won’t be imported to the new forums, so it called on previous posters to start threads to kick off things. If you’re eager to flood the message boards, try to hold back a little since access to the revamped web hangout could be interrupted at intervals for follow-up maintenance.